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Re: A Far Less Ambitous AltiVec patch



On 2 Feb, 2004, at 16.32, Richard Henderson wrote:


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:21:27PM -0800, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
Because I'll need to transfer control to an rs6000-specific mangler if
'-maltivec-mangle' is specified.  Is there another way?

We just ceded you generic type-specific mangling. So why would you need to do *anything* special for rs6000?

You mean I can introduce the AltiVec type system into the generic part of
the compiler? That's what I'd need to do to support AltiVec mangling
in a "generic" fashion...


Confused,

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